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> Authorities say many of the drone sightings have actually been legal drones, manned aircraft, helicopters and even stars.

> many state and municipal lawmakers have called for stricter rules about who can fly unmanned aircraft — and for the authority to shoot them down.

Hard to find a more American article than this.
> Agreed. If someone believes the world is purely mechanistic, then it follows that a sufficiently large computing machine can model the world---like Leibniz's Ratiocinator.

I don’t think it does. Taking computers as an analogy… if you have a computer with 1GB memory, then you can’t simulate a computer with more than 1GB memory inside of it.
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Benchmarking is a mess everywhere. Sure you can get some level of accuracy but reproducing any kind of benchmark results across machines is impossible. That's why perf people focus on things like CPU cycles, heap size, cache access etc instead of time. Even with multiple runs and averaged out results you can only get a surface level idea of how your code is actually performing.
It's a balance. Congress aims to be accessible ticket cost-wise to all.

Professional interpreters cost a lot of money, and as such it's done by volunteers. There's little to be done while maintaining the spirit of the event.

Nothing prevents people from redubbing talks either, which may honestly be a good community effort.
Whatever Intel is now, is the direct outcome of poor leadership by Pat Gelsinger. That was his entire job, and he failed.
It doesn't? That's what we did for many big projects... We just had it on a movable board.
If you think the ccc was ever not political, I don't know what to tell you. I just hope you mistook the congress for some random tech-sponsored event for lack of better knowledge.

It's founder worked for taz, probably the largest most left-wing newspaper in the BRD at the time. The founding call was puplished in there, the club never shied away from positioning itself clearly on the left in political discussions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wau_Holland
I think Tratt’s work is great, but most of the effects that article highlights seem small enough that I think they’re most relevant to VM implementors measuring their own internal optimizations.

Iirc, the effects on long running benchmarks in that paper are usually < 1%, which is a big deal for runtime optimizations, but typically dwarfed by the differences between two methods you might measure.
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More recently those consequences had a lot more of a bang…
Not surprising since in 2024 the world's most popular word processor also doesn't have all the bugs ironed out, even though it exists much longer.
Thanks for the info, I don't know how I wasn't aware.

May it serve as a warning, I put myself in mortal danger recently by referring to Plattdeutsch as a dialect (rather than a language). I have no skin in that game but some people feel strongly about it.

I'm general though I'd say that:

> a shprakh iz a dyalekt mit an armey un flot[0]

(Here I've rendered the Yiddish in Latin rather than Hebrew for emphasis.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_a...
germany is making the big mistake of mixed use tracks. in china high speed tracks are dedicated to high speed trains, and a high speed connection means dedicated high speed tracks for the whole trip. germany is creating a patchwork of high speed routes thinking that this is enough to make high speed trains work.
The OP will be pleased to know that they’re not the first person to think of this idea. Searching for “computable clinical guidelines” will unearth a wealth of academic literature on the subject. A reasonable starting point would be this paper [1]. Indeed people have been trying since the 70s, most notably with the famous MYCIN expert system. [2]

As people have alluded to and the history of MYCIN shows, there’s a lot more subtlety to the problem than appears on the surface, with a whole bunch of technical, psychological, sociological and economic factors interacting. This is why cancer guidelines are stuck in PDFs.

Still, none of that should inhibit exploration. After all, just because previous generations couldn’t solve a problem doesn’t mean that it can’t be solved.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10582221/

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2020/04/27/12-ai-miles...
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So as was typical with my end of year posts that I used to make on my previous blog, this is an end of year post. All of my end of year posts are basically rants regarding the state of the world and the state of tech more specifically. This time around I am going to focus primarily on tech as there is only so much shit my brain can suffer through at once. So how was 2024 in tech? In a word: terrible. Let’s dig into that.

So why was tech terrible in 2024? Well a large part of this judgement revolves around the industry’s full fledged unquestioned embrace of AI bullshit tech. A lot of this to do with the fact that the big money investors tugging on the puppet strings of a lot of tech startups have essentially run out of practical ideas. Once the startups succeeded in getting the word out, the big tech companies decided that they all had to play catch up. Some of them bought into the ecosystem by investing in the startups, some of them built their own and some of them just piggy-backed on other people’s work.

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If I was the owner of Amazon I would also "pay myself" $1. It doesn't make any difference.
Right, but what they actually did strikes me as a slightly weird halfway measure for supporting the NoJS use case. Optimizing away the NoJS page does not gain any significant amount of speed for the average-case visitor, but it does communicate to the NoJS user that while they're at least a citizen (an improvement over most of the web to be sure!) they're still a second-class citizen.

Again, this is much better than nothing. I'm just pointing out that this design pattern isn't as good as it could be, and if someone reading this wants to implement full support for the NoJS users they can do so by just making the NoJS landing page be the default and replacing it with the interactive app's content root.
YIKES

And dude says he was thrown out for “political reasons” as if it was just a minor thing. SMDH

He needs to get a grip.
oh well, in this case the question is: how are they using AI, and we already know a few things
The sad reality is that there are countless more things in the world that belong in museums than there is museum space/staff to properly take care of it.
These sessions would help few imo. It'd eat into people's congress time (few arrive before the event due to christmas), making it less appealing. Many also prepare their slides and talk last minute. Not a whole lot that can be done there.
Julius is the AI.
They are throwing a bit of a hissy fit over brave. Change the user agent or something and view the site.
I wonder whether you still have a bug. It depends how "scanning" is implemented.

23:55 start scanning
23:59:59 message added
00:00:01 perform timestamp check

If there is the possibility of a message being added very late, and either being omitted from the scan that started earlier, or a delay from finishing the scan to performing the timestamp check, you might still miss a message.

You also mentioned a directory being created 5 minutes early: what if some system has a clock skewed the opposite way, and puts a message in a directory 5 minutes late instead?
But what if incorrect values have been loaded? I think the biggest risks are indeed during takeoff, but I'm not sure if there are no others at all.
Yes, this is more or less what I was trying to say, but painting it even broader and saying Hacker events like these as a whole are political in nature, not just CCC.
Heh, I was going to say the opposite. Sign me up!
ultra-right parties may have "socialist" in their name, but they are typically not in a sense connected to Marx&Hegel. Example: the "National-Sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei" (Hitler's NSDAP) was not marxist.
Can it count the "r"s in "strawberry"?
I don’t know what drone you’re talking about but you absolutely cannot make a tiny Wi-Fi drone autonomous or drop things for less than a cost of a gun, every part of your statement is wrong. Currently anyone smart enough to build drone with 7 inch propellers and programmable GPS waypoints, improvised explosives … 3d printed release mechanism .. probably has a pretty good paying job and doesn’t see the value proposition of blowing things up

You know what you can easily do drive a truck into a crowd of people or fill your car with explosives in park it under a building and then blow up the entire building, but people aren’t doing that every day but continue whingeing about drones
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Land... depreciating?
The Anvil of the Stars, by Greg Bear, featured a race of aliens whose mathematics weren't based on integers.
I simply did not follow the transition between these two paragraphs:

> I now have an artificial intelligence software that helps me code. Another that helps me search for information. A third one that summarises and writes my emails. I am not allowed to disable them.

> At every moment, every second, I feel surrounded by Julius. By dozens of Juliuses.

The first paragraph is my situation and I like it, so the second paragraph didn't follow for me. My inner voice had a short mental hitch where I thought "was something missing between those? Should I slow down and stop skimming?" Then my eye jumps to "My boss came to see me. He told me that the team’s productivity was dangerously declining" and I decide "the paragraph before must have been referring to the team members using the AI tools", and I've missed the point of the story.
Made me spit my coffee out
There are "friends" tickets (or called something similar) since they want everyone to be able to come, regardless of socioeconomic background.

I feel like if there is any organization trying to make the conference audience as broad as possible, it's probably CCC.
Has it evolved?
I have never been there, but I have ordered from them. My recollection is that they do ship promptly.
My heiroglyph emojis seem not to render in my client. That ruins the comment. Don't worry, you didn't miss much...
The one I run into most frequently: Passing field A mutably, and field B immutably, from the same struct to a function. The naive fix is, unfortunately, a clone. There are usually other ways as well that result in verbosity.
"quamtum geometry" appears in the title of the article in Nature Physics, it's not an invention of the press article.

(I've seen a lot of horrible titles in other press articles, but this is not the case.)
I want tab groups in Chromium :-(
Do you think Intel would have done better with him than without him?

Because they were basically doing nothing for 5-10 years. How long do you think it would take to fix a company like that? I mean I'm not necessarily defending Gelsinger but throwing away the entire board and most of upper management would have been be the first step if they were about changing anything..
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Well that's funny, I think we already spoke on Reddit. I'm the guy who was testing the 125H recently. I guess there's like 5 of us who have intel hardware in total and we keep running into each other :P

Honestly I think there's just something seriously broken with the way IPEX expects the GPU driver to be on 24.04 and there's nothing I can really do about it except wait for them to fix it if I want to keep using this OS.

I am vaguely considering adding another drive and installing 22.04 or 20.04 with the exact kernel they want to see if that might finally work in the meantime, but honestly I'm fairly satisfied with the speed I get from SYCL already. The problem is more that it's annoying to integrate it directly through the server endpoint, every projects expects a damn ollama api or llama-cpp-python these days and I'm a fan of neither since it's just another layer of headaches to get those compiled with SYCL.

> I found a lot of stuff in that repo that depend on versions of oneKit that aren't even downloadable on Intel's site. I couldn't help but smirk when I heard someone say "Intel has their software nailed down."

Yeah well the fact that oneAPI 2025 got released, broke IPEX, and they still haven't figured out a way to patch it for months makes me think it's total chaos internally, where teams work against each other instead of talking and coordinating.
Much of the reason that commercial aviation is as safe as it is is the prioritization of safety over mission completion in the face of uncertainty. If you have uncertainty in any of the dispatch software or other dispatch items, as a passenger, I'm perfectly happy to wait until they get things sorted out rather than having this hypothetically trained staff manually executing alternative procedures that are unusual to them in order to get me to my destination a couple hours earlier...
In my experience (primarily in the south), high speed rail in China is fast if you only consider station to station time, but the amount of bureaucracy at either end is comparable to flying. You can't buy tickets without ID, you can rarely find same day tickets, there's no option for standing carriage, there's numerous security checkpoints and lots of lining up. It's best to arrive at the station an hour plus beforehand with prebooked tickets. Meanwhile the stations themselves are often way outside the urban centers you probably wanted to visit and there's not much nearby to do that isn't overpriced shopping mall/chain store stuff. You also can't leave and reenter the stations at will, you have to pass through security each time, just like an airport.

I found traveling by slow train or long distance bus much more pleasant in China because you can just walk in, buy a ticket to wherever and head out the same day. They take ages and there are all the usual delays, but the experience is much less stressful and more comparable to the train experience people from other countries might expect.

All that said, I'd still pick Chinese high speed rail over flying just for emissions reasons if nothing else.
They were put there "recently" in that condition to keep the faithless science types busy and out of the way of ye faithful worshippers.

It's like adding NPCs, side quests, and easter eggs to games.
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Because credit card fraud has had a few decades to evolve too, and is now orders of magnitudes more easy to coordinate.

If word gets out that a given store has no online processing and is accepting carbon slips again, you can bet that quite a few people with stashes of stolen/closed credit cards will show up and start buying the most expensive items in the store.

The modern equivalent would be offline chip processing. That is actually capable of at least ensuring that a given card is not heavily overdrawn or outright forged. Still, even that is unfortunately being scaled back significantly, given that "everything is always online anyway, so why do we need it?"
I am trying - honestly - to wrap my head around it ...

Who knows. Might be some sort of "distributed attack" against Open Source by some nefarious actor?

I am still thinking about the "XZ Utils" fiasco. (Not implying they are related, anyhow).-
> But the author and his team seem to be willing victims of scammers and exploiters, so what else is to be expected?

This is just a fictional story meant to be an allegory about AI. I don't understand why people takes it so literally in the comments.
I tried hoarder and I didn't like the way listed view works. I prefer the simplicity of the view provided by Linkding. I find hoarder new auto tagging with ollama something I want to use because I am lazy.

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This vastly understates the seriousness of problems you can run into. It was just last year that all of Alaska Airlines was grounded [0] because of issues with weight and balance. While those takeoffs resulted in tail scrapes, they could've just as easily lead to running out of runway if the bug had been slightly different [1].

[0] https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/aviation/2023/02/20/after-al...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34898361
I see those $5/mo or $15/yr VMs as pretty expensive. In the penny-pinching mindset you lowball your RAM which is fine on a good day but it runs out when it gets a load spike. So you need a monitoring system of some kind, backup, and so on, ...

w/ AWS I get all kinds of charts or alarms free or very cheap. The lambda is about 20 lines of Python code, I was able to complete part of the project that I was uninterested in at the time very quickly. Later on it took maybe 2-3 hours to make a UI that would let me add, view and remove feeds from my reader's UI.

YOShInOn's recommendation engine and UI were a research project however that was high-risk and might not have worked so it wouldn't have made sense to develop a better head end.

A better head end is on the agenda today but that system has a lot of other problems such as a dangerously large database that needs to be pruned, O(N) algorithms that were fine for the first year, other problems on the tail end. And it competes with other systems.

My experience is I can set something like this up in AWS and just not think about it for years.
> The Congress should be big-boy league.

I'm not sure how many people actively involved with the community who agrees with this. It's a grassroots movement and I'm fairly sure many (most?) people want it to remain as such.
How does the compute performance compare to 4090’s for these workloads?

(I release it will be significantly lower, just try to get as much of a comparison as is possible).
Failures in statistical methods are not covered by 'everything has flaws'. Those are fatal, existential flaws. Something that is not likely true (though it is erroneously presented as likely of being true) are likely false.
So we can sell them things, obviously.
The contingency in this case is just to shut down apparently. They’ve probably figured out that training on this issue is more expensive than shutting down for a few hours.

Or maybe their risk management teams have never thought of this happening, who knows.
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Apple Card, by any chance?

I've always wondered how that works for businesses that still prefer to compare the last four digits of a physical card with those of a booking made online, like some hotels or airlines still do.
> hurling

Assuming you meant 'hurtling' then no, I can't imagine it, strangely the video disavowed me of any such idea.

If you did actually mean hurling, and weren't talking about the rider hurling from that slow, annoying rhythm, then no, I can't imagine that either.
I tried to search but did find anything so asking here instead... Do you get SSH access like on the reMarkable on any of the Supernote things? They share a bunch of pictures and information about how the hardware is replacable and such, but I couldn't find any projects of people hacking on the firmware and software like there is in the reMarkable ecosystem. Otherwise it does look like a very interesting alternative.
Opera 11 (Dec 2010) had 'tab stacking'.
We‘re using Azure DevOps Boards, it’s pretty decent. Does lack some things like timesheets but for simple basic things it’s great.
> Because like everything else in law,

what law? In my country in my scenario the person would be charged for scam (fraud), robbery and any other possible crimes.
JIT can be very unpredictable. I've seen cases with JVM of running the exact same benchmark in the same VM twice having the second run be 2x slower than the first, occurrences of having ran one benchmark before another making the latter 5x slower, and similar.

Sure, if you make a 100% consistent environment of a VM running just the single microbenchmark you may get a consistent result on one system, but is a consistent result in any way meaningful if it may be a massive factor away from what you'd get in a real environment? And even then I've had cases of like 1.5x-2x differences for the exact same benchmark run-to-run.

Granted, this may be less of a benchmarking issue, more just a JIT performance issue, but it's nevertheless also a benchmarking issue.

Also, for JS, in browser specifically, pre-JIT performance is actually a pretty meaningful measurement, as each website load starts anew.
Agreed, comparing functions in isolation can give you drastically different results from the real world, where your application can have vastly different memory access patterns.
Thank you for all of that useful information, and especially for thinking about our planet. Cheers to you!
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It’s funny that this article makes a mistake in its reporting. There wasn’t an error in the levels. But just how they compared it to the guidlines
I'm a paying, full member of muccc (munich) and ccchh (hamburg), and neither expect you to help with assembly if you get tickets thru them.
I use my squishy pinkish-brown thing to create a malleable model of the program
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i remember when i start coding first time (with note pad), first couple of month i keep pocket book close, then i download the manual (it was 56K times) and it was open all the time. back then memorizing functions from stdlib was a normal thing, but there is a saying, always check man page after you write the code.

first time i use an editor which have auto completion but it works only for same file, it was time saving thing.

then i see real auto completion feature, full function name, parameters, returns and couple of words from manual, it was mind blowing for me.

then i start using eclipse, with one click whole class generation from interfaces etc. one of my friend create its own snippets and it was writing like 3 person, couple of keyword strikes and bamm, whole thing is ready.

then internet become something like air instead of water, constant flow of information, constant needs.
I was laid off in January and have been having a hell of time getting hired again, so I did a batch at Recurse Center (RC)[0]. It was a truly great time where I got to hack away at all sorts of ideas alongside people much more capable than myself. There’s a number of articles that hit the front page on here all the time like One Million Checkboxes where I got to listen to a live presentation from the author.

Now I’m back to the job hunt grind, which is the complete opposite of fun, but my time at RC was very worth it.

[0]: https://www.recurse.com/